Word: wheat
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...that of Sweyn, Olaf's foolish but sly servant. It is taken by J. C. Miller '01. He is seen again in the third act as Professor Hasafad, the enthusiastic discoverer of Leif Ericsson. C. C. Brayton '01 makes a laughable figure in this act as a Chicago wheat king of the "nouveau riche" type. P. L. Fish '01, as the insipid, affected Duke of Dedbroke, and J. M. Ross '01, as the threadbare actor, are worthy of commendation. The leading girls' parts are taken by J. S. Chipman '01 and W. H. Taylor '01. The former makes a petite...
...Arnstormer, the threadbare Thespian, J.M. Ross '01 Duke of Dedbroke, the Britisher, P.L. Fish '01 Count Tuch Uhard, the French nobleman, R.H. Grimes 2L Mr. R. E. Porter of the "Prevaricator," H.B. Ingalls '02 Will E. Pinch, "one of the finest," F.M. Sawtell '02 Mr. O.T.S. Toburn, the wheat king, C.C. Brayton '01 Countess Uhard, (nee Dukehunter) his niece, G. W. Knapp 2L. Miss Sylvia Dukehunter, her sister, and Toburn's heiress, J.C. Chipman '01 Nodo Woodmarry, "in de chorus," W.H. Taylor '01 Miss Ida Know, R.F. Jackson '03 Miss Merrie Stilly fe, A.W. Denison '03 Boston girls and friends...
...Toburn, a Chicago wheat king, becomes interested and wishes to obtain Leif as a husband for his niece. Leif insists that he is engaged to the Norwegian Sylvia, daughter of Magnus Jarl, but he is told that she has been dead nearly nine hundred years. The Duke of Dedbroke, who wishes to wed Sylvia Dukehunter, causes a great deal of trouble, but finally, with the aid of Arnstormer, the Duke is thwarted and the young lady is betrothed to Leif...
...contributions to the statistics of the cost of living. An Italian statistical table, published in 1898, is interesting in showing the increase in the purchasing power of labor. The table which entends from 1871 to 1895 gives the number of hours of labor necessary to purchase 100 Kilograms of wheat. At the former date, 1871, there were required 183 hours, while at the latter date it had been reduced to 83 hours. Turning to the United States, Mr. Wright then compared the cost of living of a carpenter from 1840 to 1891, showing the great improvement in his condition, both...
...twenty-two articles, and uses as its standard of comparison the average prices between 1845 and 1850. The great objection to the method of the "Economist" is, that in considering the twenty-two articles it gives equal weight to commodities which are very unequal in importance as, for instance, wheat and indigo. Sauerbeck's method is the same as that of the "Economist," except that for his basic number he has taken average prices from...